The Oxford University Museum of Natural History began a large redisplay project in April of this year, with the goal of developing and installing 20 new permanent exhibits in the main court of the Museum. I traveled to Oxford University for my UM Museum...
In recent years, museums have increasingly turned to “open storage” techniques to display parts of their collection which would otherwise not be on public view. The foundations for this decades-long trend are found in the impulse to democratize museums with “visible” storage being touted as one...
Visual souvenirs from the nineteenth cohort of the Museum Studies graduate certificate program.
Isabelle Gillet, PhD candidate in the History of Art Muting the Museum’s Omniscient NarratorWhy do we trust museum labels even when they sound like they were written by a disengaged but knowledgeable AI? Instead, can we rely on an “I” to guide our eye...
In the wake of postcolonial African independence, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. Art Historian and curator Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important...
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